Revision History: 3.13 ---- Added .PIF file support for launching MS-DOS programs. NetLaunch cannot terminate MS-DOS programs or tell when they've terminated. Removed the 5-second minimum time for retrying and redialing connections. 3.12 ---- Up to this version, NetLaunch was getting the verbage for the "Connect to" dialog from the dialog box in RASAPI32.DLL in Windows 95. What I have come to find out is that Windows 95 uses the "Connect to" stringtable entry to give that dialog box its title, and ignores the original dialog box resource's default title. The Brazilian-Portuguese version of Windows 95 has a slight discrepancy that caused this to become an issue. The dialog box title said "Connectar A" and the stringtable entry said "Connectar a" ... so NetLaunch was not pressing the button because it was looking for a capital A and not a lowercase A. This may also fix some problems NetLaunch was having with the Japanese/Chinese versions of Windows 95. 3.11 ---- NetLaunch now expands error dialogs that cannot fit the "retry" and "cancel" buttons, so that they will fit. No longer repeatedly minimizes the "Connected to" dialog over and over. It only does it once now. Fixed a menu bug in the left-clicked menu that would cause the menu option not to be activated when clicked if the default ISP connection was set to not show in the context menu. The right-clicked menu was unaffected. 3.10 Release ------------ Fixed a problem with connections scheduled to begin on startup. Sometimes it was opening several connection windows and trying to connect. For programs set to close "just prior to" a connect/disconnect, NetLaunch will now wait until the program is completely closed before continuing. This could cause an infinite loop if the program does not close after NetLaunch tells it to. Closing the program manually is the only way to make NetLaunch continue after that. Added full support for the NetLaunch API! The API is completely finished, but as of May 9, 1997 I have not completed the API documentation. Contact me or keep checking my webpage for availablility. It will be available free of charge for anyone who wants it. 3.10 Beta 5 ----------- Fixed a GP fault with manually-launched programs (this was actually fixed in a second upload of beta 4, so you may not have seen this error) Slight alterations to the helpfile & the Program Prefs dialog to make room for future additions. Added a very tiny .WAV file player (PLAYWAV.EXE) to the archive. This will let you play any .WAV file on a connect/disconnect event. It gets installed to your WINDOWS directory along with NetLaunch. 3.10 Beta 4 ----------- Broke the scheduler in beta 3. Fixed! Sorry. Fixed a reconnect bug. NetLaunch was minimizing the "Connected to" dialog when it appears underneath the "Reconnect/Cancel" dialog, and it should not have been. It was causing all sorts of problems. Fixed a GP fault when manually launching programs from the Launch List. 3.10 Beta 3 ----------- Fixed the left-clicked menu problem when you've selectively hidden DUN connections. It would either not launch the connection or would launch the wrong one. Added minimize Internet News & Mail to the software. It now will check if it is launching Explorer, and will adjust its method of minimizing the application accordingly. To auto-minimize either Internet News or Mail, open the Launch List, right-click on the icon, and select Properties. Select the Shortcut tab, and change the run mode to "Run minimized". NetLaunch will take care of the rest. Added no-focus launching, so apps can be started without giving them the window focus. This doesn't work for all apps, only those written properly. (Internet News & Mail do not pay attention to the NoFocus param...losers!) Altered the GUI behavior for the Launch Options. You may now select the "Only one instance" and "No focus" checkboxes for manually launched applications. 3.10 Beta 2 ----------- Added "just prior to" options for launching/closing programs prior to a connect or disconnect Fixed the context menu bug introduced in beta 1 3.10 Beta 1 ----------- Added a lot of new features! Things like: - Retry on error like Windows NT...this is WAY cool! - Can now press either "Reconnect" or CANCEL on a DUN disconnect - Can minimize or hide the "Connected to" dialog - Can prevent program icons and connection icons from showing up in the context menu Fixed some of the problems preventing me from enabling all the compiler optimizations, so now the program is even smaller than it was before! 3.06c ----- Fix for Spanish version of Windows 95. Seems there was a trailing space on the "Connectar Con" string in the RASPI32.DLL which is trimmed when the window is opened, and NetLaunch was unable to "see" the window. Fixed an unhandled exception error when disconnecting from an ISP in Windows NT. 3.06b ----- Added disable support. NetLaunch can now be enabled and disabled 3.06a ----- Fixed a small GUI bug 3.06 ----- More tweaking on the GUI, specifically the Launch List launch and close settings for programs. Fixed the Destroy Window. It was not working at all. Changed the methodology of how NetLaunch looks for windows to send close or destroy messages to. Previously, NetLaunch would simply enumerate the windows of the main thread of an application. However, this was not working on many programs that create windows in spawned threads (other than the primary thread). NetLaunch now enumerates all the windows and matches them with their Process ID's to determine which apps own which windows. It can now send messages to windows no matter which thread of an app opened it. 3.05d ----- Fixed an unhandled exception in NT when dealing with the context menu change I put into 3.05c (grin) Added a new checkbox to remove the connection entries from the context menu when you are already connected. 3.05c ----- Changed the context menu to handle huge amounts of programs in the Launch List. Previously if you were in 640x480 and had a lot of programs in the list, the menu would keep going down vertically, even past the end of the visible display area. Added logic to allow it to do multiple columns. 3.05b ----- When I reworked the disconnection detection code for NT a while back, I accidentally broke the "press redial button" code. FIXED! Fixed a very tiny GUI bug when you've added a new connection to DUN. It would sometimes show the "Apply" button when you hadn't changed anything in the "Connections" tab. 3.05a ----- Removed "push buttons for all dialup connections". It is now automatic and can not be disabled. Most of the "dialog skipping" routines required this feature enabled and would not work otherwise. Fixed long dial-up names. If the name of the dialup connection is longer than 18 characters, Windows95 truncates the name and appends "..." to it. This was throwing off NetLaunch, especially since the behavior in OSR2 is different than old Windows 95. 3.05 ---- Small tweaks. Fixed a couple small bugs when trying to press buttons for the "Connect To" dialog. Messing with the optimization settings for my compiler. Some of the features are causing inconsistencies between my debug and release builds and are causing a lot of problems. Unfortunately it means the executable is a little bigger now. I was leaving some handles open when it launched/closed programs. Fixed! The Launch List in the Preferences screen is updated properly when you change the Launch List directory. You no longer have to exit Prefs and come back in Changed the way I resolve links and ask for a pathname/filename from the system. I was asking for the shortpath (8.3 format) instead of the UNC path, and some programs...well, ONE program didn't like it. It was Agent 1.0 Separated the INF file into two versions, one for NT and one for 95. Why can't Microsoft name their setup API DLL's the same in NT and 95? It'd make the uninstall process SO much easier! Fixed the "Hide connected dialog" button...was not updating properly Fixed a long ISP name bug...The "Connect To" dialog was truncating the name in the static control I was looking at--fortunately there's a hidden on in the dialog with the full name. 3.04 ---- Fixed a major bug that could cause your system to get seriously unstable after running NetLaunch for a long time. I kept opening the registry key every 2 seconds and not closing it...so each time it would open another handle, then another, then another...you get the point. I didn't catch it until I ran NT's task manager. (Thank God!) Fixed a small registry cleanup bug Added a time-delay launch so a program can launch after a designated period of time after a connect. That way it doesn't totally cripple your system by launching all the programs at the same time. Can now hide the "Connected" dialog...None of this minimizing crap. It's GONE! (I always hated having that window in my taskbar!) Added left-click support and a new "Connections" hotkey. Left-clicking on the NetLaunch icon now brings up an abbreviated Connections menu, allowing you to connect and disconnect. The hotkey does the same thing, only with the keyboard of course. 3.03 ---- Fixed a bug when executing command-line params that caused programs to be launched in the Launch List. The program now reports when it cannot resolve a link. NetLaunch can press the "Connect" button and override username/password in NT. Of course, this only works if the dialog pops up. 3.02 ---- Fixed the fix to scheduling Fixed disconnect detect problem in NT Will no longer try to connect to a connection already established 3.01 ---- Fixed the Windows NT support. It was WAAAY broken. (I had to install NT to do this however...sigh) Fixed the Launch List directory defaults...it was broke, too. Fixed the scheduling bug for connections with an underscore. Fixed numerous incorrect registry access functions that NT is more picky than 95 about. 3.00 Released 04-25-1997 ------------------------ Fixes from the most recent beta: Fixed a dumb (but elusive) bug that erased the "program" tab preferences when you were in the Launch Opts screen (and had not switched to "Prog opts") and changed one of the "Apply to all/each" radio buttons. Duhh! Made the Prefs screen a little smarter. It doesn't give you the "Apply" button now unless you really CHANGE something. Removed the multimedia timer I was using for scheduling, and made the schedule timing code smarter so it didn't require the kind of accuracy I needed before. Fixed a bug that caused the helpfile to be repeatedly shown when you had no items in the Launch List. Oops! It now disables the functions that do not work on Windows NT, namely the button-pressing options. Small cosmetic changes. Fixed incorrect tab orders, fixed a font bug that caused the entries in the context menu not to reflect the current menu font if you changed it while NetLaunch was running. Centered text and icons in my owner-draw stuff so it looks better with non-standard fonts and sizes. Added some more information about the "Only one instance" checkbox and its limitations in the current release. NetLaunch tries to put your default Dial-Up connection first in its menu, but it sometimes put a bogus name there if you changed the name of your connection but had not used it yet. Put the LAUNCH.INF back in the ZIP file. Oops!